Juan de Bolas River

River in Jamaica

18°04′14″N 77°07′36″W / 18.070554°N 77.126770°W / 18.070554; -77.126770 • elevation2,743 ft (836 m) Mouth

• location

Confluence with Rio Minho

• coordinates

18°04′57″N 77°13′41″W / 18.082524°N 77.228160°W / 18.082524; -77.228160

• elevation

625 ft (191 m)Length10 mi (16 km)

The Juan de Bolas River rises in Saint Catherine, Jamaica,^[1] and flows through Saint Catherine and Clarendon.^[2] It is one of two rivers in Jamaica named after Juan de Bolas, the first Chief of the Jamaican Maroons.^[2]

Course

The river rises just east of Juan de Bolas Mountain, at just under 2,743 feet (836 m)^[1] from where it flows north, north-west, west and south-south-west to a confluence with the Rio Minho.^[1]

Tributaries

Tributaries (source to confluence) include:^[1]

Seven unnamed streams
Tingley Gulley
Pindars River

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 1:50,000 map of Jamaica sheet G. UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys. 1973.
^ ^a ^b Sibley, Inez (1978). Dictionary of Place-Names in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica. p. 85.

Geography of Jamaica

Subdivisions

Counties
Parishes

Settlements

Cities, towns, villages, hamlets and neighbourhoods

Landforms

Bays and coves	Cagway Bay Orange Bay (Hanover Parish) Orange Bay (Portland Parish) Xtabi
Beaches	Alligator Pond Billys Bay Bluefields Beach Boston Beach Calabash Bay Doctor's Cave Beach Club Font Hill Beach Frenchmans Bay Frenchman's Cove Great Pedro Bay Gut River Hellshire Beach Long Bay Negril Ocean View Beach Treasure Beach Whitehouse Beach Winifred Beach
Caves	Jamaican Caves Organisation Bad Hole Belmont Carambie Coffee River Drip Dunn's Hole Gourie Green Grottos Hutchinson's Hole Jackson's Bay Morgans Pond Hole Mouth Maze Oxford Smokey Hole Thatchfield Great Windsor Great Xtabi
Harbours	Kingston Harbour
Headlands	Half Moon Point Morant Point Palisadoes Portland Point South Negril Point
Islands	Morant Cays Navy Island, Jamaica Pedro Bank Port Royal Cays Sandals Cay
Mountains	Blue Mountain Peak Blue Mountains (Jamaica) John Crow Mountains Juan de Bolas Mountain Mocho Mountains
Rivers	Alligator Hole Annotto Back Black Broad Buff Bay Cabarita Cane Cave Coleburns Gully Dry Dunn Ferry Flint (Hanover) Flint (St Mary) Great Green Island Guava Gut Hectors Hope Juan de Bolas Llandovery Lucea East Lucea West Martha Brae Milk Montego Morant Morgans Negril North South Negro (St. Mary) Negro (St. Thomas) New Savannah One Eye Oracabessa Orange Plantain Garden Port Maria Rio Bueno Rio Cobre Rio Doro Rio Grande Rio Magno Rio Minho Rio Nuevo Rio Pedro Roaring Salt Smith Spanish Stony Sweet Swift Thicket Wag Water White YS Yallahs
Straits	Jamaica Channel
Waterfalls	Dunn's River Falls Fish Dunn Falls Mahoe Falls Mayfield Falls Milford Falls Mountain River Falls Reach Falls Reggae Falls Somerset Falls Tacky Falls Y. S. Falls
Other	Cockpit Country

Extreme points

Natural disasters

Earthquakes	1692 (Port Royal) 1907 (Kingston)
Hurricanes	Allen Charlie Dean Emily Gilbert Gustav Iris Ivan Lili
Tropical storms	Gilda
Tropical depressions	Fourteen